Ngige Ndung’u

This user reads Kafka, listens to techno, and watches Anime

[bia @biawexler]

slough house agents should actually be awarded with the highest honors for putting up with roddy ho for as long as they have

[Ashley @ashleeyhhh]

Rawdogging my 20s with no dating apps no situationships no drinking smoking sex and 0 social life

[chad @chasedbywasps]

what if instead of There Will Be Blood it was called There Will Be Fun. now it's more positive

[ًluna @shivhightower]

Love watching Slow Horses when I'm having a bad day cuz no matter what kind of day I'm having River Cartwright having a worse one.

[Ngige Ndung’u @__Ngige]

By sold out I mean the “general admission “1st -3rd release” no one’s buying the backstage and 50th release right ?

[Ngige Ndung’u @__Ngige]

No No No ( Insert Obsessions’s Inde Navarrette) Event organizers take the piss cos how are the Keinemusik’s tickets already sold out ? I lowkey understand Mbadi, well I don’t but still…

[𝔤𝔬𝔡 𝔡𝔬𝔤 🍉 @ogouyo]

please do not post pictures of your IMAX 70mm cinema. This is a sensitive time

[Adarsh Singh @0xadarshsingh]

life before this tweet

[Ngige Ndung’u @__Ngige]

Sinner telling Zverev he’s very very close to being no 1 is unintentionally funny.

[Ngige Ndung’u @__Ngige]

What Kabza De Small did on Eningi will never be forgotten! That song is so peak.

[Ngige Ndung’u @__Ngige]

Lol we used to watch Klopp and go wild on the “Gegenpressing “ in show , this season all we’re seeing is Gegendepressing.

[Tennis TV @TennisTV]

"Nah, I'd win" 😤

@Taylor_Fritz97 #kinoshitajotennis

[Chris Evangelista @cevangelista413]

One Monday After Another

[KG 📼 @kgjumpscare]

my letterboxd four in real life

[Ngige Ndung’u @__Ngige]

@Jacksank5 @LFCVine What limitations? Slot clearly stated Ryan has more freedom this season to roam and go forward.

[Ngige Ndung’u @__Ngige]

DJ Koze's Haven't Been Everywhere But It's On My List isn't just a great electronic track it's another level entirely. As a techno and Afro House fan who's heard a lot, I'd argue it's one of the best electronic songs ever heard, also the narrator sounds like Uncle Iroh?

[Nico @99_9pct]

You hit that unc age where you either gotta start padel or running

[demi adejuyigbe @electrolemon]

the plot of mickey 17:

[Ty Ngachira @anto_ty]

When Tyla said she is not Black but Coloured, she was not speaking into the American conversation about race at all. She was speaking in the language of her own country, shaped by its own history. Yet her words detonated in America as though they had been aimed there. This is what happens when a nation has spent a century convincing the world that its definitions are the only ones that matter.

America’s greatest export has never been war. It has never been democracy. It has never been freedom. America’s greatest export is the dream of itself.

It is not that the films are inherently better. It is not that the music contains some mystical note absent elsewhere. What America has, and what it has always had, is money, reach, and a machinery built to make its image the centre of the world.

This was not accidental. It was policy. It was the soft arm of empire. To project yourself outward until your face is the first one people recognise in the mirror.

And so the American way of life became the default. Other cultures were filed into two neat drawers: savage if they challenged the story, exotic if they could be sold back to you.

If you are Black, your first cinematic self was likely African American, the rapper, the sitcom character, the hero of a Spike Lee joint. If you are white in Europe or Australia, it was the white faces of American sitcoms and stadium tours. Whoever you were, your first image of yourself came with an American accent.

Over time, Americans began to believe the story they had written. When you grow up in the country that built itself into the cultural Mecca, it is easy to think you are the best simply because you are on top. You forget, or never know, that the game was fixed long before you played it.

But the monopoly is breaking. Nigeria’s Nollywood now speaks across oceans. South Korean dramas leap borders. India’s Bollywood never needed permission to fill theatres. Spanish thrillers keep strangers awake at night. Slumdog Millionaire, Squid Game, Money Heist, Shōgun — all aimed partly at the American market because that is where the money is, but no longer about America.

And here is the thing. Black Americans, who fought to be seen in their own country, became the global face of Blackness. That is a remarkable achievement. It was also made possible by the same system that excluded everyone else. Now Africans, Caribbeans, and Afro-Latins tell their own stories without making room for American centrality, and the absence is noticed.

We grew up watching you. You did not grow up watching us. And now the internet has levelled the ground just enough for others to speak without hesitation. Tyla’s words land differently because the world no longer accepts America as the only arbiter of meaning.

America’s greatest export was never its art. It was the power to decide which art, and which identities, the world would see. That power is no longer yours alone. There is both justice and loss in that.

[jo🍿 @snoopysfilms]

downloading letterboxd may be one of the best decisions i’ve ever made